Hello from a 37 year smoker

[FoxdenVixen]

I once bought a couple of disposable e-cigs and enjoyed the flavor but never really pursued getting into the whole lifestyle. I still liked my real cigarettes. Then my son bought an e-cigarette kit, got me interested and I bought one. I filled the tank with a menthol flavored liquid and have been "hooked" ever since. I still smoke real cigarettes but not as much as I was. I was a one carton every 7 days smoker. My last carton lasted me over 2 weeks and I don't buy cartons any more. I buy individual packs and only a couple at a time and they last me several days. My goal is to not buy real cigarettes any more.

 

[twizted]

Congratulations, you're one step closer to a cigarette free life.

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[MoDmAnDaN]

Welcome to ECF!!

That's the goal of almost everyone here....you can do it!! You may already have been feeling the benefits of (at least) drastically reducing the number of stink sticks you're smoking. It will get easier!!!

 

[djsvapour]

Is a carton = 200 cigarettes?

(we don't really have these, except coming back from European holidays).

Good for you for cutting back... you'll do the whole lot soon enough.

 

[FoxdenVixen]

In the US one pack has 20 cigarettes and there are 10 packs to a carton....so yeah 200 cigarettes. I actually didn't SMOKE all of those. I am a freelance web designer by trade so I am at my computer all day. I do smoke in the house and will light up a cigarette, put it in the ash tray and start working. I will take a couple of puffs, put it back down and before I know it, it is burned down. So I light another one. You get the pattern.

 

[Desert Dweller]

I once bought a couple of disposable e-cigs and enjoyed the flavor but never really pursued getting into the whole lifestyle. I still liked my real cigarettes. Then my son bought an e-cigarette kit, got me interested and I bought one. I filled the tank with a menthol flavored liquid and have been "hooked" ever since. I still smoke real cigarettes but not as much as I was. I was a one carton every 7 days smoker. My last carton lasted me over 2 weeks and I don't buy cartons any more. I buy individual packs and only a couple at a time and they last me several days. My goal is to not buy real cigarettes any more.

Welcome to ECF and good luck to quitting completely!

 

[djsvapour]

In the US one pack has 20 cigarettes and there are 10 packs to a carton....so yeah 200 cigarettes. I actually didn't SMOKE all of those. I am a freelance web designer by trade so I am at my computer all day. I do smoke in the house and will light up a cigarette, put it in the ash tray and start working. I will take a couple of puffs, put it back down and before I know it, it is burned down. So I light another one. You get the pattern.

Another GREAT reason to vape.

We do have 200 packs, but they are $140. People rarely buy them.

I used to buy them from "Eastern block" countries for $30 (?) until the E.U. started to become an economic price-leveler.

 

[Margie123]

I was a pack a day for 50 years. Been vaping 8 weeks and I am now down to 1 a day. Can't seem to give that one up. But that's 19 a day I am not smoking. Stick with it. It does get better in time. Good Luck.

 

[WillyZee]

congrats on your progress FoxdenVixen ... I also smoked for 37 years ... gave them up last September.

 

[Coop56]

I've smoked for 17 years, gradually quit and started vaping. No smoking for 3 months, had a slip up and now back to maybe 5-7 cigs a day and dropping! Just gotta find a juice you enjoy vaping and the rest is cake! Good luck

 

[Paradicio]

Congrats on cutting down! Welcome to the forums!

Newly quit 21 year 15-20 cigs a day, here. I'm totally off them now and much happier.

You can do it!

 

[CountBoredom]

Congratulations on your journey! Many of us have smoked for longer than we care to admit. Keep vaping, and the quitting will come to you!

 

[olefolks]

I was a pack a day for 50 years. Been vaping 8 weeks and I am now down to 1 a day. Can't seem to give that one up. But that's 19 a day I am not smoking. Stick with it. It does get better in time. Good Luck.

Way to go Margie. Happy for you.

 

[olefolks]

I once bought a couple of disposable e-cigs and enjoyed the flavor but never really pursued getting into the whole lifestyle. I still liked my real cigarettes. Then my son bought an e-cigarette kit, got me interested and I bought one. I filled the tank with a menthol flavored liquid and have been "hooked" ever since. I still smoke real cigarettes but not as much as I was. I was a one carton every 7 days smoker. My last carton lasted me over 2 weeks and I don't buy cartons any more. I buy individual packs and only a couple at a time and they last me several days. My goal is to not buy real cigarettes any more.

Once you get the right set up Fox you will drop those analogs for good. Its a search and find situation. I smoked for 60+years. Put them down on 11-1-13 and haven't wanted one since. Matter of fact, I still have 7 packs in the garage right now.
I have Provaris, Sigeleis, KFL+, Russian 91% and various clones. Now, all I use is a Reo LP grand with a RM2 and Cyclone. Will probably never use anything else. I'm in Vapor Heaven. Just saying!!

 

[FoxdenVixen]

I am not sure I will ever use mods. I did look up the Reo that you mentioned....it looks like a box? The other acronyms I do not know and could not find.

 

[CountBoredom]

Take it slow, Fox. Dreaming of shiny items is a sure path to financial ruin...! I'm not sure what sort of setup you're using write now, but it's probably better to take smaller steps for the time being.

 

[Bernard Marx]

I also find those box-like things to be off-putting, although it took me a while to see the beauty in the belly-button jewelry and now I am a big fan.

 

[Zamazam]

Stick with vaping, you are doing great! I smoked 2 packs a day for 35 years. My wife and I quit together in 2011 and had a bit of a time moving over to vaping 100%. My wife complained of that urge for a smoke with her morning coffee, back then I'd also get the jones for a cigaret with my morning coffee, but we stuck with vaping and have been smoke free since May of 2012.

 

[Zamazam]

I am not sure I will ever use mods. I did look up the Reo that you mentioned....it looks like a box? The other acronyms I do not know and could not find.

Don't get overly concerned with all the gear and equipment, if you have a setup that works and it's helping keep you off of cigarettes, then stick with it. If you want to, you can get a new setup that will produce more vapor, but the important part if to stick with what you have if its working for you.

 

[abpigdoc]

Congrats for coming over! Love a new hobby, and especially when I get healthier. I put up one of those counters--89 days now, and I couldn't believe what I was paying! It's like getting a second job, not buying cigs--and I have been lucky enough to find this site to educate myself how NOT to smoke and still enjoy myself...so many alternatives and all of them can work. It will be easy for you!